Direct to vehicle printer

[Jim Doggett]

Pretty fast too, according to the Web site:

Printing speed of VAR for the area of 10m(wide) x 2m(high) with 0.4mm pitch, 40 nozzles is 148minutes.

That's 183 sq ft / hour, probably on a truck side or other reasonably flat surface. I doubt compound curves are handled well. But great tech (if it works, assuming redos are royal pain) for vans, trucks, trailers, etc. Plus only the cost of the ink, since like cut vinyl on vehicle, the customer supplies the substrate :^) Gotta love it.

 

[andy]

It's a Michelangelo digital airbrush machine and it's been around for roughly 20 years... if you click through that Japanese website onto one of their European distributors tcg you'll find they still advertise it as a Michelangelo.

This piece of kit works very nicely.... we used a Michelangelo to paint up vinyl panels which were then "wrapped" onto a double decker bus. This was a looonnnggg time ago before even the Encad machines had been invented. If you wanted a one off, full colour "wrap" you had to spend an absolute fortune on a bazillion different silk screens or find something else... this Michelangelo machine was the something "else".

The job we used the Michelangelo to produce was for that fast food chain that begins with an M... the results were great and the printed vinyl lasted a long time without fading.

If I had the space I'd buy one of these machines... the "paint" they use in these machines is a lot more durable than printer ink, it sticks like $hit to a blanket to almost anything and it's one of the only full colour machines that really doesn't need laminating... we never used a laminate and that bus went through a frickin huge car wash thing 3 time a week for years... none of the paint came off or faded.

If you need to print direct to rigid sheet materials one of these babies would be absolutely perfect.

 

["Deposit Please"]

poor photoshop work on that van graphic on feature page...lol. and i like to see them print on a vehicle other than white. :ROFLMAO: credit for trying tho

 

[artbot]

remember the pixation " wirejet/painting machine".... that was pretty cool too. still wish i picked up one of those.